The Ellingson Family

Prayer List

Please bring the petitions below to the Throne of Grace in prayer. This ministry is a spiritual endeavor, so we ask that you pray to the Lord of the Harvest to work mightily through our ministry in Madagascar. Our newsletters list our most recent prayer requests and praises. You can view our previous newsletters here or sign-up for future newsletters here.

Pray for the following items:

Pray for all the logistical preparations we need to make to move to another country.

Pray for the spiritual preparation needed for life in a very different country and culture. Pray specifically for greater dependence on God, a greater heart for the people of Madagascar, a deeper understanding of God’s Word, and our further growth in being conformed into the image of Christ.

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Missionary Quotes

“Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in Thy service, and to promote Thy kingdom.”—David Brainerd
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”—Hudson Taylor

God’s Word

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”—Matthew 9:37–38
“Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.”—John 4:35

Missionary Quotes

“I hope . . . that the multitudes of heathen in the world may hear the glorious words of truth. Africa is but a little way from England; Madagascar but a little way farther. . . . A large field opens on every side, and millions of perishing heathens, tormented in this life by idolatry, superstition, and ignorance, and exposed to eternal miseries in the world to come, are pleading.” —William Carey
“Missionary zeal without the truth is only heat without light.”—Brad Klassen